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[Collection of portraits, predominantly of Aborigines of New South Wales and Tasmania, ca. 1817-1849]
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SAFE/PXA 615
Record identifier
9yM6oQD9
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[Collection of portraits, predominantly of Aborigines of New South Wales and Tasmania, ca. 1817-1849]
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[Collection of portraits, predominantly of Aborigines of New South Wales and Tasmania, ca. 1817-1849]
Full title
Date
ca. 1817-1836, 1849
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXA 615
Record Identifier
Formats
Pictures, Prints, Drawings and Manuscripts
— Physical Description
Contents
33 prints - 33.3 x 33.8 cm. or smaller - lithographs (some with white highlights) and etchings
8 drawings - 30.6 x 30.8 cm. or smaller - watercolour and pencil
Textual Records - 3 handwritten sheets
Textual Records - (typescript) 1 typed sheet
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
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Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : 27 images
Subjects
More information
— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
1. Prepared for battle / Same convict / [by T.R. Browne]. This is possibly a portrait of `Mimosa', a similar work is held at DGA 3 f. 2
2. "2" [Australian Aboriginal male carrying spear and fish, ca. 1820 / by T.R. Browne]
3. N.S. Wales - Native in the act of fighting / Same Convict / [by T.R. Browne]. This is possibly a portrait of T...
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
[Collection of portraits, predominantly of Aborigines of New South Wales and Tasmania, ca. 1817-1849]
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
— NOTES
General note
Nos. 1-4 have been attributed to T.R. (Richard) Browne based on their similarity to No.5 "Broken Bay Jemmy" and illustrations in T. Skottowe's album, "Select Specimens From Nature of the Birds Animals ..." (located at PXA 555 Mitchell Library).
No.2 At the upper left of the drawing appears the number "2" that may refer to the note inscribed on d...
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled beneath image.
Many of the prints bear artist and publication details.
Printed at bottom "Printed & Sold by J.G. Austin & Co. No. 12 Bridge Street Sydney"
Nos. 42-44 have printed artists and publication details, "Design'd etch'd & publish's by Bm. Duterrau Augt. 24 1835 Hobart Town Van Dieman's Land"
Some are dated.
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Presented by Francis Edwards, 1932
Exhibited in
Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait.
Matthew Flinders : The Ultimate Voyage
A Rage for Curiosity
The Art of exploration
Illawarra and Environs: a pictorial survey
Administrative / Biographical history
Bungaree in fact died in 1830.
Identifiers
— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXA 615
Record Identifier
9yM6oQD9
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— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
404751
